Idea Quotes
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I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.
Walker Evans
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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco
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Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.
Napoleon Hill
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
James Cook
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The main idea of the album was to translate different styles with just one sound. It was really hard to do that. It’s exactly the same when you see a guy – he’s one guy but he can have several different emotions. That’s the best way to explain it.
Mike Levy
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The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.
Alan Alda
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There's something about making a song that everybody can sing and remember, and when you listen to it the first time, you already know the words by the second chorus, like you've always known the song. I'm obsessed with that idea.
Kim Petras
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Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
Seth Godin
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
Sophocles
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
Alan Cumming
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
Patrick Ness
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I'm really obsessed with this idea that we're living in this environment where there's always magic around us that we are not perceiving.
Reid Carolin
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The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.
Albert Einstein
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With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that myself; I never have to answer to anybody.
Aziz Ansari
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I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.
Marie Antoinette
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I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.
Cameron Crowe
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From then on, my idea of grace is fulfilling your talent completely, and my only idea of sin is misusing that gift. The dread of not becoming completely what you can be is so strong that sometimes later in life it will paralyze me. How horrible to do the wrong thing, the thing that doesn't express your essence - and how horrible to fall short of your powers, or to discover that they might be more meager than their seemingly limitless potential!
Eva Hoffman
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I'd been living in the tunnel for about three months before the idea came up about making the film and really became good friends with the people.
Marc Singer
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I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.
Steven Soderbergh
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.
Flannery O'Connor
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The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.
Johnny Depp
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Ethel Barrymore